Fifty years ago subsidence was recognized as a problem in the Galveston Bay area. Groundwater extraction, especially by industries along the Houston Ship Channel had created massive subsidence. The Harris County Subsidence District was formed, and has been slowly converting industries and cities in Harris County from groundwater to surface water from the Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers. It has been expensive, but successful. The higher cost of water also had the beneficial effect of reducing consumption. at least to some extent. Groundwater was cheap, surface water not so cheap, it has an effect.
I do know that Louisiana has always had this issue and they called engineers from the Netherlands for help with their problems. Another reason for this are these are large coastal cities with a lot of weight on land plus erosion. I live about 90 min from the Gulf Coast in a small town. No one wants to live on or too near the coast because of the cost and all the many issues that go with a coastal home, we have seen it for many decades.
Another part of the issue i don't see discussed anymore is the fact the we levied up the Mississippi river, so it not longer pulls in large amounts of sediments during flood phases, which in turn means less sediment is deposited through the Mississippi delta. this is a huge factor for coastal erosion in the southeastern Louisiana region, mainly areas like Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes. Combine this with Hurricanes over the years washing a lot of the coast away with flood waters.
@@0IIIIII You can count on hurricanes on the Gulf coast. Been close by, hour or so away, 67 years and its a given. One bunch moves out and the next bunch moves in....to experience firsthand why the last ones moved. Seen them come and go for decades, while the real estate agents toast with Dom Perignon with every sale.
It's almost as people should have listened to the scientists warning about this for last the 40 years, or paid attention to all of the insurance companies pulling out of at-risk markets, and not waited until the last, most expensive minute...
people seem to be interpreting the title as referring to sea level rise, when "land subsidence" is a completely separate issue. they both lead to the same result; land sinking underwater, but with completely different causes
The only good thing about the sea level rises threatening the south is that Florida will be underwater! I bet in the next simulation, Florida will never exist!
They are not separate! As sea level rises it changes the water tables and other things. Look it up. The funny part is it’s climate denier states than will be under water. 🎉
@@cryora To her credit, AOC did say that the world is going to end in 2031, which is twelve years after she said that we had twelve more years to live. Technically, she did not say that it would happen in 2031, she just said 12 years in the year 2019, so I did the math for her. She may not get the same results if she does the math.
@@christaylor8337 Al Gore did a whole presentation and documentary called The Inconvenient Truth that was well marketed. I don't know if AOC went to such great lengths, or if she just rambled about it to some news reporter.
ROFL I NOTICED THE SAME THING IN EUROPE .... ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO THE GOVERMENT BUILT TYPEOF PEAR FOR OIL COMPANY TO EXPORT THIER OIL ... THE SHORE LINE TO THE EAST ...WASHED A WAY ... TO THE WEST THEY HAVE TO DIG THE BUILD UP OUT OF THE PORT ... WHICH WAS THERE FOR OVER 1500 YEARS NEVER A PROBLEM
When families from the coastal cities are forced to move to more inland states they will realize how realistic and non superficial life really can be. Different ways of living. Different scenery. if you noticed all of the land masses sinking are the places that are the most popular cities and are overpopulated.
I was talking with a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley who wondered why the irrigation district didn’t fill the canal earlier in the season so he could flood his fields and recharge the aquifer. That was the same year Tulare Lake reformed so there was plenty of water coming down from the Sierras.
People know that should be the solution, but it’s not that simple to move inland infrastructure that employs 54 million people and has 35% of the US GDP. All solutions should be explored
Just ignore it altogether. Florida has sunk quite a bit in the last 100 years. But If you lived there sine 1924, it's highly doubtful you'd even notice- you would have had much greater things to worry about in your life. You just build new construction a little higher each time and it takes care of itself.
@@SteveLomas-k6k You notice when your yard and home start to fill with water, as the house sinks unevenly into the soil. You also notice the rising water in the streets.
@@ttoleafoa70 Your right it wont be simple, Its going to take the next 100 years, It will need to be done by not allowing reconstruction on the coast of large assets and hard infrastructure, It will just need to be little by little. And honestly it will most likely to happen anyways, due to high cost of insuring building on the coast.
To be fair what’s framed as “right” may have inherent bias to it. This is an issue don’t get me wrong, but what you think of as right may be heavily influenced by factors that may want to sway you in specific ways.
@@calvinhoward3808 good plan. i'd suggest you also come up with an exit strategy because you won't be able to afford to live there if what you're hoping for happens.
I remember back in the 80’s I read an article newspaper article saying that Prince Edward Island was loosing land from rising seas every year, and by 2000, it wouldn’t be here….
yep, and ice age predicted in the 1970's. Gloom and doom and no coast or islands. It's only 5 years away, just like good nuclear fusion power and flying cars. In 100 years, when I'm gone, we should have a least 2 out of the 3. Who knows.
6:20 the reason why underground aquifers are so important is that it’s clean as it is so far down it’s filter. Throw a bunch of man made “filtered” water back in you would contaminate not just a cities water but likely many many states water as the underground aquifers are all connected .
How do you know putting filtered water back in the aquifers will contaminate the water? What contaminates will filtered water introduce that could cause harm to the aquifer?
Yea I knew there had to be something going on with all these homes I keep seeing for sale in Biloxi and the forecast on the property value going down when I search that area online
the train situation already happened in Southern California as Amtrak had to suspend service between San Diego and LA for a while due to a combination of cliff erosion and land subsidence on the costal bluffs where the tracks are.
This doesn't address the population problem. Even with birthrates declining, we have WAY too many living in this nation now. We already saw the damage caused by the population redistribution of 2020-2022. In my area alone, the population seemed to triple within a short period of time thanks to out of staters being bored during the lockdowns and wanting to live elsewhere. States need to impose population growth caps to ensure that land and the native population aren't harmed by sudden spikes in growth. I don't even like driving anymore because everyone and their stupid mother has a car!
@@eathecommienah we’re actually seeing a total decrease in population and it’s becoming a problem. This generation is reproducing less than ever. Look at japan there is actually an epidemic right now with the birth rate decline
Most houses on the texas coast near corpus are on stilts so even if the land goes down, they will still be above the water level. If your house is a couple feet above the water level, then you'll be gone before you care.
No one talks about the Greak Lakes. If sea levels rise THAT MUCH, then waterways would become to a higher sea level, which would in theory, increase the depth of the Great Lakes as well, or am I wrong? Simple hydraulics. I remember 10 years ago the lakes were extremely below normal levels and now we have coastal erosion from too much water. 😅
Rubbish. Not a crisis. People will make personal choices that are best for them. Just do not encourage further coastal building by providing gov protections for investments. Let folks risk their own money and they won’t build there. Everything is not a crisis. This is certainly not.
The only way to possibly combat this rise in sea level is to find a way to deal with the salination by product. We are spending so much money for space travel when we could be using that money to learn ways of handling the by product. Once that was done, then we could ship water to wherever we wanted, all countries could do it. That would certainly help with the rise in our sea levels.
If you stop putting property on the coast as it is destroyed the problem takes care of itself . When something is not economically viable due to risks , then the problems take care of themselves .
I live within three miles of salt water in a coastal county. My house is about 280’ above mean sea level. The other end of the county is ~3,000’. Assuming all, or even much land in coastal counties is subject to hazard from subsidence is wrong. In most of the country it’s a narrow strip. Don’t buy waterfront property unless you can afford to have its value zero out.
How long have you been doing this? I live in Florida and I don’t want to get discouraged by the headlines of sea level rise and was hoping you could say more about this.
@@Graphics_Card long time, I am in Louisiana. To start observing if you are not into fishing or other hobby that gets you into or near the ocean. No matter where you are in Florida there is an old launch or dock. The quick and easy is to talk to the old locals. The other is to make a durable mark. Watch the tides so you make the right observation times and just observe a few times a year.
The water table is rising. Is that the same as the land sinking? Or is the land sinking because the water table is rising? People don’t understand how this is happening and this video isn’t helping because it does not really explain what’s happening. I live on Delmarva and over the last 10 years the water table rose a foot. My neighbors are now experiencing flooding where they didn’t before after a storm. Trees are being removed and no longer sucking up the ground water. The problem is multifaceted.
Just depends on what topic that is being discussed, which are sea level rising and land subsidence but both create the same problems for coastal communities. In this video, land subsidence is being discussed. Main causes are because of drying out aquifers and a lot of focalized mass in an area. Such examples are being seen in Mexico City and NYC. Also, the water table is the same but since the soil is being compacted more, it may seem as if the water table is rising. I also think your take in cutting down trees is also influencing flooding for your neighbors but I am not sure if you live in a big city but also can be because of all the asphalt and concrete that doesn’t let water to drain into the soil as easily.
Currently trying to figure out ways to offset my carbon footprint and its also helping establish frugal living. As I cut my carbon output then I also spend less money by having less impact on my environment. I will also figure out ways to plant more trees and cut my energy consumption.
For 40 years I have been hearing about this. Seems Florida is still here. Also seems like it won’t be fixed. Amazing how we have known this for how long? Still no solutions.
I keep seeing these types of headlines and speculation by researchers and studies done, but the coastline in Galveston Texas has not changed a single bit in decades, I don’t believe a single word. These people say about the climate.
they should make a big pipeline from the sea to the aquifer and recharge from salt water. Over time the salt will mineralize and plug the holes in the ground.
I’ll never understand why people moved back to New Orleans after Katrina. I work on the river so I understand the importance of the ports. But people didn’t have to move back at the levels they did.
5:54 .... how does "borrowing water from a neighbor" change the amount of water overall that's being used? 7:23 oh, "borrowing water from a neighbor" as in "neighboring region with less sensitive water sources"
"The bad news is we're sinking; the good news is we have time to do something about it". Yeah, right. How did that work out for climate change? We aren't good at being proactive. Get ready to be reactive.
People are always like “we have time to fix climate change” but they fail to realize Americans will never give up their freedom of cars despite them causing the most CO2
0:28 why do I care about that how about how many people live in this region how much personal property value is located here and how many thousands of families could be impacted.
It would mean telling the super wealthy, the super ignorant and billionaire corporations they have to face climate change. In other words there’s no price point. May as well ask how much a unicorn would cost.
We have too much underground land. Instead of reconstruction we just built on top of, so much more weight on our crust also over populated. Another war might just be fate for the prolonging of earth/human species
Depends on where it is. There's rising solid surfaces, there's sinking solid surfaces, there's increasing water in the ocean, there's expanding water because the ocean is warming, there's water rearranging where on Earth it is because ocean overturning circulation is slowing down, and there's water rearranging where on Earth it is because the Greenland & Antarctica ice sheets are losing mass round the edges so their gravity pulling the water is less so water is moving away from them. Many things happening.
Major insurance companies are actually rejecting any new business from high risk areas and mortgages are insured in most cases by the US government. But yeah go ahead and buy that house in Miami next to beach.
exactly if climate change was real there would be major increases in insurance rates, and there’s definitely not been an increase at all recently right? /s
So these cities are sinking 2 in every 10 years.... 10 in over 50 years... aren't they the same places they're measuring the sea rise from because of global warming ? 😂😂😂😂
By the time you pay off your mortgage...your house is underwater!
Boat house homie
Yay! I always wanted waterfront property.
Good thing I'm a fish. 😁😁😁
Meh. If I know my country, the US and its people will ignore this until it’s too late.
yep the American way 😂🤷🏽♂️🤦🤦
Should check out what’s happening in India, everything is falling apart.
Too late to move a little away from the water? Wonder why Obama bought a fifty million dollar ocean property. He must not believe you.
I plan on pointing and laughing. We better not bail out stupid people. Again...
…will ignore this. Period. They will not be bothered with peasantry problems.
“Castles made of sand…. Slip into the sea…. Eventually!” - Jimi
Wisdom from a guy that choked on his own vo mit
we cant fix homelessness and you think government and our taxes can fix this. 😂
You are spot on
Government can fix it but rest of people don’t want to pay for it 😂
Who told you we can't fix homelessness?
Corporations and greed will save us just like Benjamin Franklin wanted.
hahahahhahahaha noooo hahahahah.
Fifty years ago subsidence was recognized as a problem in the Galveston Bay area. Groundwater extraction, especially by industries along the Houston Ship Channel had created massive subsidence. The Harris County Subsidence District was formed, and has been slowly converting industries and cities in Harris County from groundwater to surface water from the Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers. It has been expensive, but successful. The higher cost of water also had the beneficial effect of reducing consumption. at least to some extent. Groundwater was cheap, surface water not so cheap, it has an effect.
I do know that Louisiana has always had this issue and they called engineers from the Netherlands for help with their problems. Another reason for this are these are large coastal cities with a lot of weight on land plus erosion. I live about 90 min from the Gulf Coast in a small town. No one wants to live on or too near the coast because of the cost and all the many issues that go with a coastal home, we have seen it for many decades.
Great, I can pick up a house cheap. Not!!!
Yes, I'm from Houston originally, and we saw this in nearby coastal cities there too.
Another part of the issue i don't see discussed anymore is the fact the we levied up the Mississippi river, so it not longer pulls in large amounts of sediments during flood phases, which in turn means less sediment is deposited through the Mississippi delta. this is a huge factor for coastal erosion in the southeastern Louisiana region, mainly areas like Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes. Combine this with Hurricanes over the years washing a lot of the coast away with flood waters.
That’s unique to the Gulf Coast though. Most coastlines are densely packed and desirable, Gulf Coast has issues like hurricanes
@@0IIIIII You can count on hurricanes on the Gulf coast. Been close by, hour or so away, 67 years and its a given. One bunch moves out and the next bunch moves in....to experience firsthand why the last ones moved. Seen them come and go for decades, while the real estate agents toast with Dom Perignon with every sale.
It's almost as people should have listened to the scientists warning about this for last the 40 years, or paid attention to all of the insurance companies pulling out of at-risk markets, and not waited until the last, most expensive minute...
You’re joking; right?
They didn't want to spend the money.
Forty years ago they said oceans would freeze. Then acidvrain...then heat...then ozone....then change.
@@christaylor8337 No, they didn’t.
This is propaganda for climate lock downs. They want complete control over everything we do.
people seem to be interpreting the title as referring to sea level rise, when "land subsidence" is a completely separate issue. they both lead to the same result; land sinking underwater, but with completely different causes
The only good thing about the sea level rises threatening the south is that Florida will be underwater! I bet in the next simulation, Florida will never exist!
They are not separate! As sea level rises it changes the water tables and other things. Look it up. The funny part is it’s climate denier states than will be under water. 🎉
Rising seas cause more underground water to seep under coastal areas and make them subside. They are different actions, but one can cause the other.
@@nerfherder4284 one "can" cause the other, yes, but you will not solve sinking land the same way you solve rising seas
@@nerfherder4284 Yes, it’s why the only non-sinking coast is the active margin of Oregon and Washington.
This is a big threat and the politicians rarely speak of it.
Partly because the people just don't care.
It's been going on for millions of years.
Al Gore was the only one who spoke about it.
@@cryora To her credit, AOC did say that the world is going to end in 2031, which is twelve years after she said that we had twelve more years to live. Technically, she did not say that it would happen in 2031, she just said 12 years in the year 2019, so I did the math for her. She may not get the same results if she does the math.
@@christaylor8337 Al Gore did a whole presentation and documentary called The Inconvenient Truth that was well marketed. I don't know if AOC went to such great lengths, or if she just rambled about it to some news reporter.
People love living next to water, but this is what water does. There are a lot of ancient cities that are under water now.
My House is in Miami i have lost more then 3 feet of my yard and im not on the the beach im near the everglades😅
ROFL I NOTICED THE SAME THING IN EUROPE .... ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO THE GOVERMENT BUILT TYPEOF PEAR FOR OIL COMPANY TO EXPORT THIER OIL ... THE SHORE LINE TO THE EAST ...WASHED A WAY ... TO THE WEST THEY HAVE TO DIG THE BUILD UP OUT OF THE PORT ... WHICH WAS THERE FOR OVER 1500 YEARS NEVER A PROBLEM
How long did that take
When families from the coastal cities are forced to move to more inland states they will realize how realistic and non superficial life really can be. Different ways of living. Different scenery. if you noticed all of the land masses sinking are the places that are the most popular cities and are overpopulated.
I was talking with a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley who wondered why the irrigation district didn’t fill the canal earlier in the season so he could flood his fields and recharge the aquifer. That was the same year Tulare Lake reformed so there was plenty of water coming down from the Sierras.
Why would we try to stop something we cant control. Just stop building on the coast and start moving inland.
People know that should be the solution, but it’s not that simple to move inland infrastructure that employs 54 million people and has 35% of the US GDP.
All solutions should be explored
Just ignore it altogether. Florida has sunk quite a bit in the last 100 years. But If you lived there sine 1924, it's highly doubtful you'd even notice- you would have had much greater things to worry about in your life. You just build new construction a little higher each time and it takes care of itself.
@@SteveLomas-k6k This is one of the most uneducated answers I’ve ever seen
@@SteveLomas-k6k You notice when your yard and home start to fill with water, as the house sinks unevenly into the soil. You also notice the rising water in the streets.
@@ttoleafoa70 Your right it wont be simple, Its going to take the next 100 years, It will need to be done by not allowing reconstruction on the coast of large assets and hard infrastructure, It will just need to be little by little. And honestly it will most likely to happen anyways, due to high cost of insuring building on the coast.
“Moms gonna fix it all soon…
Learn to swim”
Only in US would we consider the cost, compared to just doing the right thing undisputedly is really revolting to me.
Only in the US and every other country in the world
What’s revolting?
To be fair what’s framed as “right” may have inherent bias to it. This is an issue don’t get me wrong, but what you think of as right may be heavily influenced by factors that may want to sway you in specific ways.
Me in Colorado watching this: 👁👄👁
Which US cities are rising and how much will it cost to stop them?
Same
Yeah, but you live in Colorado.
Imagine the Great Lakes region. We have beaches but no coast issues. It just needs to be warmer. I say we do nothing.
@@calvinhoward3808 good plan. i'd suggest you also come up with an exit strategy because you won't be able to afford to live there if what you're hoping for happens.
I remember back in the 80’s I read an article newspaper article saying that Prince Edward Island was loosing land from rising seas every year, and by 2000, it wouldn’t be here….
Losing. 🙄
Your saying you read an article many years ago, is worthless.
@@williamwilson6499 meaning, people have been pushing this crap for a long time. You’re 🥸
@@williamwilson6499 You're. 🙄
🙄and🙄🤣
yep, and ice age predicted in the 1970's. Gloom and doom and no coast or islands. It's only 5 years away, just like good nuclear fusion power and flying cars. In 100 years, when I'm gone, we should have a least 2 out of the 3. Who knows.
Oh no. The rich that live on the coast dont want their 10 million dollar houses going into the ocean.
6:20 the reason why underground aquifers are so important is that it’s clean as it is so far down it’s filter. Throw a bunch of man made “filtered” water back in you would contaminate not just a cities water but likely many many states water as the underground aquifers are all connected .
How do you know putting filtered water back in the aquifers will contaminate the water? What contaminates will filtered water introduce that could cause harm to the aquifer?
I was not mentally prepared to know the city I bought a house in just a week ago is sinking......God hates me
If you live in a red state, don't worry about it. Like climate change, land subsidence is easily labeled as woke.
Palos Verdes, California?
This is true
😂
Yea I knew there had to be something going on with all these homes I keep seeing for sale in Biloxi and the forecast on the property value going down when I search that area online
san antonio and austin about to become beach cities 💀
Wow. Did you mean in Texas?
@amyhoang9140 looking at the thumbnail yes but I was also slightly joking
Damn. I bought beach front property and never even knew it.
“ let’s hear over to costal Austin “ 😭😭
beach front
the train situation already happened in Southern California as Amtrak had to suspend service between San Diego and LA for a while due to a combination of cliff erosion and land subsidence on the costal bluffs where the tracks are.
yep. in san clemente.
ive taken that route before.
was beautiful.
Those near the coasts will act shocked by the land losses!
You can’t stop Mother Nature. The only thing you can do is adapt and move those coastal communities inland.
Actually, we can slow global warming.
@@Psycho-Nomics Through blind obedience and indentured servitude to world government we can fix anything!
Inland cities become the new coastal cities.
This doesn't address the population problem. Even with birthrates declining, we have WAY too many living in this nation now. We already saw the damage caused by the population redistribution of 2020-2022. In my area alone, the population seemed to triple within a short period of time thanks to out of staters being bored during the lockdowns and wanting to live elsewhere. States need to impose population growth caps to ensure that land and the native population aren't harmed by sudden spikes in growth. I don't even like driving anymore because everyone and their stupid mother has a car!
@@eathecommienah we’re actually seeing a total decrease in population and it’s becoming a problem. This generation is reproducing less than ever. Look at japan there is actually an epidemic right now with the birth rate decline
I’m going Togo ahead and worry about something else.
Most houses on the texas coast near corpus are on stilts so even if the land goes down, they will still be above the water level. If your house is a couple feet above the water level, then you'll be gone before you care.
No one talks about the Greak Lakes. If sea levels rise THAT MUCH, then waterways would become to a higher sea level, which would in theory, increase the depth of the Great Lakes as well, or am I wrong? Simple hydraulics. I remember 10 years ago the lakes were extremely below normal levels and now we have coastal erosion from too much water. 😅
If they were sinking, wouldn't buildings be falling in the water by now?
All the Veterans buried in the Biloxi National Veterans Cemetery - we must keep these graves above water. We must at least try. Love you Dad.
My dad too 😢
Rubbish. Not a crisis. People will make personal choices that are best for them. Just do not encourage further coastal building by providing gov protections for investments. Let folks risk their own money and they won’t build there. Everything is not a crisis. This is certainly not.
Damn I live in Portsmouth Va located in the Hampton roads 😭floods horribly here
Another factor is soil creep where soil moves laterally from shore into the waterways.
Sea level is exactly the same as when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock.
Not true, many tiny islands off Massachusetts coast have disappeared.
Your mom is exactly the way I left her last night.
@@raybod1775 it’s the same.
The only way to possibly combat this rise in sea level is to find a way to deal with the salination by product. We are spending so much money for space travel when we could be using that money to learn ways of handling the by product. Once that was done, then we could ship water to wherever we wanted, all countries could do it. That would certainly help with the rise in our sea levels.
1cm in a year? I believe people can afford losing half a metre of land every 50 years and there are more pressing issues
If you stop putting property on the coast as it is destroyed the problem takes care of itself . When something is not economically viable due to risks , then the problems take care of themselves .
The water will be rising until most of the U.S. is under water.
If all the ice melts the sea will rise approximately 230’
Well considering the earth started one just one continent, took major disasters to make 7, the earth will always change.
And so will the weather.
And no amount of taxes will fix it.
Is Tennessee in danger? I've already passed on the ocean front property in Arizona.
"New Orleans is sinkin' man and I don't wanna swim!"
- The Tragically Hip, 1989
I live within three miles of salt water in a coastal county. My house is about 280’ above mean sea level. The other end of the county is ~3,000’. Assuming all, or even much land in coastal counties is subject to hazard from subsidence is wrong. In most of the country it’s a narrow strip. Don’t buy waterfront property unless you can afford to have its value zero out.
It’s been good for centuries at this point, so I think we’re good
Not colorado!.... wait.. were gonna have no water soon.. different problem!
So why wouldn’t we just adapt and move the ports as water rises and land sinks instead of fighting the process?
So 75 years for up to 1 foot difference. Airports themselves can have 100’ of difference between one end of a runway vs the other.
This is serious and we the people need to look around and see what is happening to our world right now
Maybe we should build a wall around Chicago to keep out those future weather transplants from Florida and Texas? 😢
really poor discussion of how water shortages can be better managed and prevented
It is not nearly as fact-poor as your comment.
Long before the coastal areas are claimed by the sea they will experience periods of tidal and storm related flooding that will make them untenable.
I go fishing in the Gulf several times a month. Have yet to see any changes in water level where I launch.
How long have you been doing this? I live in Florida and I don’t want to get discouraged by the headlines of sea level rise and was hoping you could say more about this.
@@Graphics_Card long time, I am in Louisiana. To start observing if you are not into fishing or other hobby that gets you into or near the ocean. No matter where you are in Florida there is an old launch or dock. The quick and easy is to talk to the old locals. The other is to make a durable mark. Watch the tides so you make the right observation times and just observe a few times a year.
Let talk about Logan Airport being build on a literal flood plain and landfill...
And what role is *fracking* playing on depleting though aquifers and thus land compaction?
The water table is rising. Is that the same as the land sinking? Or is the land sinking because the water table is rising? People don’t understand how this is happening and this video isn’t helping because it does not really explain what’s happening. I live on Delmarva and over the last 10 years the water table rose a foot. My neighbors are now experiencing flooding where they didn’t before after a storm. Trees are being removed and no longer sucking up the ground water. The problem is multifaceted.
Just depends on what topic that is being discussed, which are sea level rising and land subsidence but both create the same problems for coastal communities. In this video, land subsidence is being discussed. Main causes are because of drying out aquifers and a lot of focalized mass in an area. Such examples are being seen in Mexico City and NYC. Also, the water table is the same but since the soil is being compacted more, it may seem as if the water table is rising. I also think your take in cutting down trees is also influencing flooding for your neighbors but I am not sure if you live in a big city but also can be because of all the asphalt and concrete that doesn’t let water to drain into the soil as easily.
@@XxHaVocSkiLLzxX that’s great information. Thanks
Currently trying to figure out ways to offset my carbon footprint and its also helping establish frugal living. As I cut my carbon output then I also spend less money by having less impact on my environment. I will also figure out ways to plant more trees and cut my energy consumption.
video is long. In other words, politicians are just talking and doing nothing.
To make you feel better you be long gone before u see it...
We should think about our kids and grand children.
huh? it's literally happening now, you can see it along coasts across the world bro
The typical Trump fool responded
Majority of infrastructure is non manufacturing in nature thus easily moved. Ports need water…
Its funny cause the reason why these projects are so expensive is because of the people who control the network😭
How much will it cost????? How is some paper getting in the way of saving the world😂
No discussion of subsidence and how ocean level rise will affect the coastal areas?
For 40 years I have been hearing about this. Seems Florida is still here. Also seems like it won’t be fixed. Amazing how we have known this for how long? Still no solutions.
I keep seeing these types of headlines and speculation by researchers and studies done, but the coastline in Galveston Texas has not changed a single bit in decades, I don’t believe a single word. These people say about the climate.
Nothing is sinking.
If you close your eyes and tell yourself things you like to hear sure.
@@unitedskiesunderthemoon like the floods in Xinjiang
You can tell the US is sinking in comparison to Canada just by looking at a map. The continent gets narrower the further south you go. :-)
they should make a big pipeline from the sea to the aquifer and recharge from salt water. Over time the salt will mineralize and plug the holes in the ground.
me in new orleans watching this.sounds like a bad outcome for me in the dirty south.
I’ll never understand why people moved back to New Orleans after Katrina. I work on the river so I understand the importance of the ports. But people didn’t have to move back at the levels they did.
@@GetThemLyricsit’s my home.
just new Orleans... not the rest of the south lol
@@jermainec2462WHO DAT
@mmane257 lol, that's sinking ... new Orleans sinking but not the rest of the south but new Orleans cool tho i would hate to see yall go under ...
They are not sinking, you are thinking that they sink.
All that ground water pumping, isn't helping either... Parts of SoCal sank 15ft or more due to that alone.
Isn't Foster city basically filled in ocean to begin with? It's just going back to his natural state I think.
5:54 .... how does "borrowing water from a neighbor" change the amount of water overall that's being used?
7:23 oh, "borrowing water from a neighbor" as in "neighboring region with less sensitive water sources"
My old middle school 🏫 was at ground level 35 yrs ago when I attended.
Now you walk down about 3 steps to get inside. 😁
what are they sinking about?
It is a massive land shift caused by the Ice Sheets of the Ice Age receeding. North of NYC the land is actually gaining elevation.
Classic German
Take the stand and make the difference right now and let the world be the better place for all nature and animals in the world
"The bad news is we're sinking; the good news is we have time to do something about it". Yeah, right. How did that work out for climate change? We aren't good at being proactive. Get ready to be reactive.
People are always like “we have time to fix climate change” but they fail to realize Americans will never give up their freedom of cars despite them causing the most CO2
because the ice is melting, we aren’t doing anything with the water‼️
But by the scale shown the same chart shows just as much is growing..... So land is moving not sinking
Money can't solve everything yall sound so shallow
I wish they would have zeroed in on specific places and what the out-come would be if nothing is done.
“I like clean water!” That how a former leader of the world most technical advanced country answered about the environment crisis.
Pro tip: MOVE
0:28 why do I care about that how about how many people live in this region how much personal property value is located here and how many thousands of families could be impacted.
More green environment means more efficiency which means more green in my pocket.
It would mean telling the super wealthy, the super ignorant and billionaire corporations they have to face climate change.
In other words there’s no price point. May as well ask how much a unicorn would cost.
We have too much underground land. Instead of reconstruction we just built on top of, so much more weight on our crust also over populated. Another war might just be fate for the prolonging of earth/human species
Oh no not Florida 😢
Go buy more crypto😂😂
Webpage would want a known sinking home ? Banks ?
In Canada it would just give them another reason to tax us.
The land isn’t sinking! The water is rising!
Depends on where it is. There's rising solid surfaces, there's sinking solid surfaces, there's increasing water in the ocean, there's expanding water because the ocean is warming, there's water rearranging where on Earth it is because ocean overturning circulation is slowing down, and there's water rearranging where on Earth it is because the Greenland & Antarctica ice sheets are losing mass round the edges so their gravity pulling the water is less so water is moving away from them. Many things happening.
Banks still giving loans and insurance still insuring. When they stop, then it's a problem. Next 30years looking fine to me
Major insurance companies are actually rejecting any new business from high risk areas and mortgages are insured in most cases by the US government. But yeah go ahead and buy that house in Miami next to beach.
exactly if climate change was real there would be major increases in insurance rates, and there’s definitely not been an increase at all recently right?
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New York would be the first to sink considering since they are near by the ocean , along with Maryland and New Jersey.
So the sea level is raising and the land is sinking? 😮💨
You've had decades you've done nothing. Nothing will change.
So these cities are sinking 2 in every 10 years.... 10 in over 50 years... aren't they the same places they're measuring the sea rise from because of global warming ? 😂😂😂😂
No I don’t think so.
Glad I live in the Midwest!
Eventually it will be Waterworld irl. I can’t wait to grow gills!
Stop shutting down smoke shops and worry about the big picture
So it's not ocean levels rising. It's us sinking....😂
You got to fix New York at The ballot box
What really worrisome is the trillions in HUD LOANS thatll be worthless!